This is a guest blog post by Carol Evenson

There is a myriad of guides available online that will offer to teach you how to manage your team’s workloads and delegate tasks to your subordinates. Engineers are a slightly different group, though, and as such, there are a few differences in how you should handle delegation in the engineering world.

While there are always exceptions, as a rule, engineers tend to be more analytical and even a bit introverted. If you want to ensure that your work gets done to the best of their abilities, you will need to interact with them differently than you might for other members of your team. Here are a few tips to keep in mind as you direct the engineers on your team: